The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

A sound philosophy of life, I think, may be the most valuable asset for a psychiatrist to have when he is treating a patient.